Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak

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Julia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak

30 January 2026 to 19 April 2026

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Phillips's sculptures hold ceramic fragments — pressed against her own body — in place with industrial hardware: clasps, wingnuts, springs. Each fastening raises a question about attachment and separation, closeness and force. Her first UK institutional solo, presented in the Barbican's Curve gallery.

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For her first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, the multidisciplinary artist presents new works which draw from her interest in the body, conception, and human connection. Julia Phillips uses sculpture and drawing to give shape to intangible concepts, from psychological states and biological processes to human bonds and attachments. Her sculptures merge the anatomical and the industrial. Glazed ceramic fragments, pressed and moulded against her own body,...

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